POSITION / LW POSITION / ARTIST / TITLE / PLAYS / AUDIENCE (MILLIONS)

 

1. (1) Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg - California Gurls 66,192 1,320.3

2. (3) Lady Gaga - Alejandro 62,093 1,207.9

3. (2) Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind (Part II) 71,638 1,198.4

4. (4) Lady GaGa - Bad Romance 69,487 1,176.0

5. (5) Scouting For Girls - This Ain't A Love Song 59,043 1,138.6

6. (6) Plan B - She Said 68,022 1,047.9

7. (7) Owl City - Fireflies 51,455 1,002.2

8. (8) Kylie Minogue - All The Lovers 54,177 956.3

9. (9) Cee-Lo Green - Forget You 37,161 860.3

10. (11) Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling 54,915 803.5

11. (10) Michael Buble - Haven't Met You Yet 49,111 800.7

12. (12) Lady Gaga feat. Beyonce - Telephone 42,871 757.6

13. (14) Florence & The Machine - You've Got The Love 46,723 756.6

14. (13) Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart 50,773 752.9

15. (15) B.o.B. feat. Hayley Williams - Airplanes 33,960 734.6

16. (17) The Wanted - All Time Low 44,497 721.5

17. (16) Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire 50,865 721.3

18. (18) Tinie Tempah - Pass Out 24,227 719.9

19. (19) Taio Cruz - Dynamite 35,825 719.6

20. (20) Eminem feat. Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie 29,201 710.6

21. (21) Enrique Iglesias feat. Pitbull - I Like It 50,174 705.4

22. (22) Usher feat. Will.I.Am - OMG 31,149 676.4

23. (23) Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love 45,110 674.0

24. (24) Olly Murs - Please Don't Let Me Go 45,510 671.4

25. (34) Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are 37,164 662.7

26. (25) Rihanna - Rude Boy 34,546 651.8

27. (26) Pixie Lott - Cry Me Out 45,622 649.7

28. (31) Katy Perry - Teenage Dream 35,517 649.6

29. (30) Jason Derulo - In My Head 34,995 649.4

30. (27) Rihanna - Te Amo 40,525 648.5

31. (28) JLS - One Shot 37,259 648.2

32. (29) Alexandra Burke feat. Pitbull - All Night Long 50,726 642.9

33. (36) The Script - For The First Time (Times Are Hard) 37,541 628.7

34. (32) Cheryl Cole - Parachute 42,516 624.5

35. (33) Robbie Williams - You Know Me 45,204 619.7

36. (39) Travie McCoy feat. Bruno Mars - Billionaire 28,070 614.8

37. (35) B.o.B. feat. Bruno Mars - Nothin' On You 30,365 614.5

38. (37) Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway 48,609 604.9

39. (38) Flo Rida feat. David Guetta - Club Can't Handle Me 27,957 598.6

40. (40) 3OH!3 feat. Katy Perry - Starstrukk 23,126 588.9

41. (41) Yolanda Be Cool & D Cup - We No Speak Americano 21,094 581.6

42. (51) Take That - The Flood 23,312 580.6

43. (42) Eliza Doolittle - Pack Up 27,762 564.8

44. (43) Example - Kickstarts 22,046 562.2

45. (44) Jason Derulo - Ridin' Solo 26,705 556.5

46. (45) Ke$ha - Tik Tok 27,811 546.9

47. (46) Alexandra Burke feat. Flo Rida - Bad Boys 40,718 546.1

48. (47) Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed 25,953 543.3

49. (48) Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody 35,971 532.8

50. (49) Timbaland feat. Katy Perry - If We Ever Meet Again 30,932 531.8

 

 

51. (52) Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow - Shame 26,248 531.7

52. (54) Tinie Tempah feat. Eric Turner - Written In The Stars 16,997 527.3

63. (73) JLS - Love You More 20,022 442.0

70. (78) Cheryl Cole - Promise This 20,939 416.5

83. (93) Katy Perry - Firework 16,187 352.7

 

Based on cumulative totals from weekly Top 100 Airplay charts.

 

 

Airplay chart number ones of 2010 so far:

 

Lady GaGa - Bad Romance (3 weeks)

Owl City - Fireflies (4 weeks)

Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind (Part II) (2 weeks)

JLS - One Shot (1 week)

Cheryl Cole - Parachute (2 weeks)

Scouting For Girls - This Ain't A Love Song (5 weeks)

Plan B - She Said (4 weeks)

Alexandra Burke feat. Pitbull - All Night Long (1 week)

Kylie Minogue - All The Lovers (1 week)

Lady GaGa – Alejandro (2 weeks)

Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg - California Gurls (5 weeks)

Eliza Doolittle - Pack Up (1 week)

Ne-Yo - Beautiful Monster (1 week)

The Saturdays - Missing You (2 weeks)

Taio Cruz - Dynamite (1 week)

Brandon Flowers - Crossfire (1 week)

Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow - Shame (1 week)

Cee-Lo Green - Forget You (6 weeks)

Take That - The Flood (5 weeks)

Ellie Goulding - Your Song (1 week)

"Alejandro" definitely should have charted higher than it did on singles. -_-

 

Can't believe "Sex On Fire" is that high after two years!

Am I the only one that thinks it's slightly wrong that a song that peaked at #7 one week is the 2nd most-played song of the entire year on the radio? Alejandro is a good song and everything, and did well for a #7, but there's other #7s that could've done better with such immense airplay, like One by Swedish House Mafia, for example.

Am I the only one that thinks it's slightly wrong that a song that peaked at #7 one week is the 2nd most-played song of the entire year on the radio? Alejandro is a good song and everything, and did well for a #7, but there's other #7s that could've done better with such immense airplay, like One by Swedish House Mafia, for example.

 

 

Yes, I guess you're the only one.

There's nothing wrong with it.

One- SHM :puke2:

Am I the only one that thinks it's slightly wrong that a song that peaked at #7 one week is the 2nd most-played song of the entire year on the radio? Alejandro is a good song and everything, and did well for a #7, but there's other #7s that could've done better with such immense airplay, like One by Swedish House Mafia, for example.

 

I kinda agree, but it was already the 3rd single off her reedition and it helped the album to sell more.

Although, it was nothing as huge as 'Bad romance' or 'Telephone', and even the contraversial video was kind of a non-event, so it didn't really deserve all that attention from radios.

Still a good song though.

Yay for Alejandro! But with all that airplay it should of been a top 5 hit. I can see why KOL are still high up but I Gotta Feeling? Haven't Met You Yet?, these are songs from the past they don't need all this airplay.

I Gotta Feeling is a modern-day classic and possibly one of the most radio friendly songs ever made, so I'm not surprised at its enormous sales and airplay.

 

I personally think it's hugely overrated, I don't even particularly like it, but you can't deny its appeal and radio-friendliness.

Edited December 16, 201014 yr by ★ Xmas Bray ★

Yay for Alejandro! But with all that airplay it should of been a top 5 hit. I can see why KOL are still high up but I Gotta Feeling? Haven't Met You Yet?, these are songs from the past they don't need all this airplay.

 

I Gotta Feeling and Haven't Met You Yet are still on the playlist on the largest commercial radio station in the country...

 

I agree, I Gotta Feeling isn't the best song in recent times, like airplay, charting and sales figures would indicate, but it is exactly the song that would appeal to like everybody. It's genius, in the sense that it has such broad mainstream appeal. I think it's a good song, but Boom Boom Pow, Meet Me Halfway, Imma Be and possible Missing You are all better, but obviously those songs are more controversial (particularly Imma Be). Lot's of people will hate them, or find them boring.

 

I don't think Alejandro is too bad a song, but it's getting all that airplay? Like really? Like many radio stations go on a semi-supply/demand basis. Like the top 40 in the charts is basically their playlist, and they'll play upcoming songs if lots of people are requesting them, etc, but clearly some radio stations are just playing their "favourite" songs (i.e. pop songs that sound like they were made 25 years ago). I can possible understand that, I guess. Like if you grew up listening to 80's pop music, you're probably going to like Alejandro a lot compared to other 2010 songs, and I guess most people who're deciding what is to be played on the radio might be around that age?

 

That's just my theory anyway. I think if what got played on the radio was solely decided by the music-buying public, Alejandro might be #10 or something, rather than #2.

 

EDIT: Re-reading this, I use the word "like" an awful lot! :o

Edited December 16, 201014 yr by Eric_Blob